EgoForce: Forearm-Guided Camera-Space 3D Hand Pose from a Monocular Egocentric Camera

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Main Authors: Millerdurai, Christen, Wang, Shaoxiang, Xie, Yaxu, Golyanik, Vladislav, Stricker, Didier, Pagani, Alain
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Published: 2026
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author Millerdurai, Christen
Wang, Shaoxiang
Xie, Yaxu
Golyanik, Vladislav
Stricker, Didier
Pagani, Alain
author_facet Millerdurai, Christen
Wang, Shaoxiang
Xie, Yaxu
Golyanik, Vladislav
Stricker, Didier
Pagani, Alain
contents Reconstructing the absolute 3D pose and shape of the hands from the user's viewpoint using a single head-mounted camera is crucial for practical egocentric interaction in AR/VR, telepresence, and hand-centric manipulation tasks, where sensing must remain compact and unobtrusive. While monocular RGB methods have made progress, they remain constrained by depth-scale ambiguity and struggle to generalize across the diverse optical configurations of head-mounted devices. As a result, models typically require extensive training on device-specific datasets, which are costly and laborious to acquire. This paper addresses these challenges by introducing EgoForce, a monocular 3D hand reconstruction framework that recovers robust, absolute 3D hand pose and its position from the user's (camera-space) viewpoint. EgoForce operates across fisheye, perspective, and distorted wide-FOV camera models using a single unified network. Our approach combines a differentiable forearm representation that stabilizes hand pose, a unified arm-hand transformer that predicts both hand and forearm geometry from a single egocentric view, mitigating depth-scale ambiguity, and a ray space closed-form solver that enables absolute 3D pose recovery across diverse head-mounted camera models. Experiments on three egocentric benchmarks show that EgoForce achieves state-of-the-art 3D accuracy, reducing camera-space MPJPE by up to 28% on the HOT3D dataset compared to prior methods and maintaining consistent performance across camera configurations. For more details, visit the project page at https://dfki-av.github.io/EgoForce.
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spellingShingle EgoForce: Forearm-Guided Camera-Space 3D Hand Pose from a Monocular Egocentric Camera
Millerdurai, Christen
Wang, Shaoxiang
Xie, Yaxu
Golyanik, Vladislav
Stricker, Didier
Pagani, Alain
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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Reconstructing the absolute 3D pose and shape of the hands from the user's viewpoint using a single head-mounted camera is crucial for practical egocentric interaction in AR/VR, telepresence, and hand-centric manipulation tasks, where sensing must remain compact and unobtrusive. While monocular RGB methods have made progress, they remain constrained by depth-scale ambiguity and struggle to generalize across the diverse optical configurations of head-mounted devices. As a result, models typically require extensive training on device-specific datasets, which are costly and laborious to acquire. This paper addresses these challenges by introducing EgoForce, a monocular 3D hand reconstruction framework that recovers robust, absolute 3D hand pose and its position from the user's (camera-space) viewpoint. EgoForce operates across fisheye, perspective, and distorted wide-FOV camera models using a single unified network. Our approach combines a differentiable forearm representation that stabilizes hand pose, a unified arm-hand transformer that predicts both hand and forearm geometry from a single egocentric view, mitigating depth-scale ambiguity, and a ray space closed-form solver that enables absolute 3D pose recovery across diverse head-mounted camera models. Experiments on three egocentric benchmarks show that EgoForce achieves state-of-the-art 3D accuracy, reducing camera-space MPJPE by up to 28% on the HOT3D dataset compared to prior methods and maintaining consistent performance across camera configurations. For more details, visit the project page at https://dfki-av.github.io/EgoForce.
title EgoForce: Forearm-Guided Camera-Space 3D Hand Pose from a Monocular Egocentric Camera
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Graphics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12498